Old man PRs 720 lbs leg press

[GYAT]

I am 48+ US Male. Leg day a few days ago I matched my young playing hockey beast mode days PR of 720 pounds on true weight plate laying leg press (8 plates on each side stacked to the end can't add more on most units). I pushed 5 decent and deep reps with no issues, and could feel I could go a few more but wanted to kind of be safe. AI chats report I'm in upper range of dudes who can do this. I wonder how true that is? Either way I'm pretty stoked! I had not been doing any leg press in 10 years or so I simply got away from that movement, doing more mid weight higher reps squats and always extensions and curls and c raises. In only a few months of adding leg press back in, it's wild how much bigger and stronger my legs have become and now I love leg days again, more than ever. I also started doing legs 2 times per week only, no more no less. I used to do them 3 times per week sometimes 4. I just ordered a little protable flexible good enough iphone tripod thingy going to grab some video of this one of these mornings and will post on here. This all had me wondering, how many other "seasoned" (not older lol) fellas around ASF are pushing a lot of leg press weights or hitting any old man PRs?

 

[Bolan]

I am 48+ US Male. Leg day a few days ago I matched my young playing hockey beast mode days PR of 720 pounds on true weight plate laying leg press (8 plates on each side stacked to the end can't add more on most units). I pushed 5 decent and deep reps with no issues, and could feel I could go a few more but wanted to kind of be safe. AI chats report I'm in upper range of dudes who can do this. I wonder how true that is? Either way I'm pretty stoked! I had not been doing any leg press in 10 years or so I simply got away from that movement, doing more mid weight higher reps squats and always extensions and curls and c raises. In only a few months of adding leg press back in, it's wild how much bigger and stronger my legs have become and now I love leg days again, more than ever. I also started doing legs 2 times per week only, no more no less. I used to do them 3 times per week sometimes 4. I just ordered a little protable flexible good enough iphone tripod thingy going to grab some video of this one of these mornings and will post on here. This all had me wondering, how many other "seasoned" (not older lol) fellas around ASF are pushing a lot of leg press weights or hitting any old man PRs?

I don't know what I can do in the leg press... I know I use the leg press to train calves though.
Squats are where my power is at. I've done 705x20 and a 1RM of 850.
All @ 50+ years old.

 

[GYAT]

I don't know what I can do in the leg press... I know I use the leg press to train calves though.
Squats are where my power is at. I've done 705x20 and a 1RM of 850.
All @ 50+ years old.

Dude! 850 squat any age is insane let alone 50+ mad respect (I am post 50 too ok if you are man enough to admit it B, I guess I can be too lol). I have not tried heavy squat weight in many many years my last heavy set when I squat these days is simply 4 plates (360) 7 or 8 reps but now you got me thinking...hmmm....

 

[Bolan]

Dude! 850 squat any age is insane let alone 50+ mad respect (I am post 50 too ok if you are man enough to admit it B, I guess I can be too lol). I have not tried heavy squat weight in many many years my last heavy set when I squat these days is simply 4 plates (360) 7 or 8 reps but now you got me thinking...hmmm....

I'm " lucky" in the sense I only have a 30" inseam so squats have always been somewhat easy for me.
For me the old supersquat program I kinda pulled the 20 rep squats from that book and have been running with it for 20 years or even more!

In a nutshell the program is like this.

Take your 10rep max..... and do 10 more without stopping, re-racking ETC.
Just deep breaths, basically like a rest pause because when you get to rep 15-20, your standing there trying to breathe and gather the energy to do another rep. Then you go home...... People don't think there's enough stimuli for leg day... but if you do these right. you'll be cooked for the next 5-6 days.